Reform Party

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establishment by Perot

In September 1995 Perot established the
Reform Party, which he hoped to build into a major political party. The party’s broadly defined platform called for campaign reform, congressional term limits, balancing the federal budget, overhauling the health care and income tax systems, and placing restrictions on lobbying. Running as the
Reform Party nominee in the 1996 U.S. presidential election...

role of

Buchanan

Having grown increasingly disaffected from the mainstream Republican stance, Buchanan quit the party in October 1999 and the following year, after a highly contentious convention, won the
Reform Party’s nomination for president and its $12.5 million in federal funds. A forceful, articulate writer and speaker, he often set forth his beliefs in blunt, memorable language. Critics called him a...

Trump

Trump was also active in politics. In 1999 he switched his voter registration from Republican to the
Reform Party and established a presidential exploratory committee. Though he ultimately declined to run, he set forth his socially liberal and economically conservative political views in
The America We Deserve (2000). Trump later rejoined the Republican Party, and he maintained a...

Ventura

In 1998 Ventura ran for governor of Minnesota as the
Reform Party candidate. Support for his campaign quickly grew, in part owing to his offbeat television ads (in one a Jesse Ventura action figure battled another figure named Evil Special Interest Man) and his perceived honesty. Ventura redubbed himself “The Mind” and reached out via the Internet to young voters and those...